Copyright: all photos by two of my friends Around 450 guests had come to Wertheim and Kreuzwertheim for the wedding of Benedikt Schmid von Schmidsfelden and Princess Amélie zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg on 28 May 2022. Among them many royals and nobles. Present were for example members of the families Arenberg, Bentheim-Tecklenburg, Castell-Castell, Castell-Rüdenhausen, Erbach-Erbach, Esterházy von […]
Amélie & Benedikt – After a year of waiting
Photos: with kind permission of two of my friends, who were at Wertheim. The engagement was announced on 3 June 2020 of Benedikt Schmid von Schmidsfelden and Princess Amélie zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg. He romantically proposed on top of a mountain near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Pentecost Saturday, 30 May 2020. They had met at the wedding of […]
The royal wedding season has started!
One of the first weddings in the royal and mediatized houses of this year took place on Saturday 30 April 2022 in the beautiful Catholic Parish Church St. Margareta in Altenmarkt an der Alz, Bavaria, Germany. Count Ludwig zu Stolberg-Stolberg married Annabelle Garbe. He was born in 1984 as son of Count Otto zu Stolberg-Stolberg […]
The Bückeburger House of Baroness Lehzen
When walking from the railway station to the old city centre/Palace of Bückeburg there is one short stop us royalty-watchers should make. Somewhere halfway is a house with a plaque on the wall saying (in German): Luise von LehzenEducator to the QueenVictoria of Great Britainlived in this housefrom 1842 until 1870 Johanna Clara Louise Lehzen […]
New royal and noble books – April 2022
For more new books about royalty see: History of Royal Women Rosvall Royal Books Royal Book News The World of Royalty Van Hoogstraten Online AUSTRIA Author: Katrin Unterreiner. Title: “Oh, wie schön Sie ist!” Sisi, Kleider einer Kaiserin (“Oh, how beautiful she is!” – Sisi, Dresses of an Empress). Publication: 20 April 2022 by Ueberreuter. […]
New royal and noble books – March 2022
For more new books about royalty see: History of Royal Women Rosvall Royal Books Royal Book News The World of Royalty Van Hoogstraten Online GERMANY (Bavaria/Württemberg) Author: Ulrich Scheinhammer-Schmid. Title: Prinzessin Wiltrud von Bayern, Herzogin von Urach. Der Briefwechsel mit Karl und Klara May (Princess Wiltrud of Bavaria, Duchess of Urach. The correspondence with Karl […]
New royal and noble books – December 2021
For more new books about royalty see: History of Royal Women Rosvall Royal Books Royal Book News The World of Royalty Van Hoogstraten Online AUSTRIA Authors: Elena Hell and Robert Krause. Title: Sisi (1). Das dunkle Versprechen (Sisi. The dark promise). Publication: 1 December 2021 by Rowohlt Verlag, on the occasion of the new RTL-TV-Series […]
New royal and noble books – November 2021
For more new books about royalty see: History of Royal Women Rosvall Royal Books Royal Book News The World of Royalty Van Hoogstraten Online DENMARK Authors: Karin Palshøj & Gotte Redder. Title: Kongehuset – På arbejde for Danmark (Royal House – At work for Denmark). Publication: 5 November 2021 by Lindhardt og Ringhof. Language: Danish. […]